You never know the importance of living in a home with good air quality, until you live in a home without good air quality.
Or in my case, it was actually a hotel.
Working hard for the past months, I knew I deserved a break, so I decided to take a weekend and head on over to the beach. The beach is such a simple but beautiful sight, and I can’t help but to remember all of my happy childhood memories of building sandcastles and playing in the waves. Unfortunately, I am quite far away from any beaches now, so I had to stay at a hotel for the night. Staying in this hotel was horrible. Don’t get me wrong, the hotel itself wasn’t bad. The staff was nice and the room was nice as well, it was the indoor air quality! Not only was the air extremely dry, but the entire room had a weird musty smell to it. I couldn’t stand being in there for more than an hour, as it made it difficult to breathe. I actually had a whole home media air cleaner at my house, but that wasn’t going to help me now. For the humidity issue, I set up bowls of water around the hotel, directly in front of fans to increase the humidity. To reduce the musty smell, I turned the air conditioning system off and that mostly made the smell go away. With both of these methods I was able to make it through staying the two nights. But it definitely made me more grateful to have good indoor air quality.